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Volker “Via” Lewandowsky
A collage about the lascivious inertia of power, full of allusions to the rotting Roman Empire. In 1987, the decay of the world-organising systems could already be smelled from the GDR underground.
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Volker “Via” Lewandowsky
Retrospective 2024
Experimental Film
GDR
1987
7 minutes
without dialogue
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The GDR formed an image of its citizens, hardy in everyday life and firm in principles, that it wished to see reflected in “their” art. Dresden-based artist Volker, called Via Lewandowsky, avoided the vanity of the GDR art scene and reflected something else back to his superior state: the indolence of the flesh, the gluttony of the systems that allegedly ordered the world. This Super 8 film from the late German Democratic subculture rubs against Heiner Müller’s stage text “Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome A Shakespeare Commentary”. The manuscript was (half) published in 1986 by the East Berlin Henschelverlag with the following proviso: “If the play is not accepted for production, this book must be returned immediately […].” Lewandowsky emigrated to West Berlin in 1989 before the fall of the Wall.
Sylvia Görke

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Volker “Via” Lewandowsky